Cutting Steel. Up close & personal, in super-slo-mo.

[mitch]

http://www.wimp.com/cuttingsteel/

 

[Tira]

Very cool - looks more like it is cutting through lard or something. Thanks for posting!

 

[DakotaDocMartin]

There's a lot of "smooshing" and tearing going on. The metal tends to gob up on the tip and bull doze through the metal.

 

[mitch]

There's a lot of "smooshing" and tearing going on. The metal tends to gob up on the tip and bull doze through the metal.

and if you watch closely, the metal is actually parting well ahead of the cutting edge in most of the clips. like in your screen capture still, you can see the metal coming apart well before making actual contact with the tool.

 

[Red Green]

Yes, a very viscous liquid and a good thing too or we'd have to vanquish terrorists with stone tipped weapons. The graver tip looks like the prow of a icebreaker and the metal much like ice. What I thought was really wild is the welding of debris under the graver I wonder what the temperature is at the local molecular level.

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

Thanks Mitch, love to see this, and so about the music

arnaud

 

[vanknife]

Super cool thanks Mitch

 

[gantzi]

Amazing! Thanks Mitch

 

[bronc]

That's wild! Thanks for sharing that with us Mitch!

Stewart

 

[Douglas]

That is so cool. It almost look like water flowing.

 

[Ed Westerly]

Wow, thanks, Mitch. This explains a lot about porpoising, why chips sometimes break off at unexpected times, etc. I'll have to remember this the next time unexpected things happen in my cutting!!!

 

[monk]

mindful, to me, of the forces acting on the surface of our planet. mountain formation, crustal deformation and such.

 

[Red Green]

" crustal deformation and such."

That's just what I think when I look in the mirror first thing in the morning lately, do you think it is caused by engraving?

Bob